Principal Engineer (C++,JAVA)

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93480

Position Overview

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software, giving customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. This is an exciting time to join us on our multi-year journey to disrupt the Design to Manufacture world with Fusion, by delivering unprecedented value and converging workflows with cloud-based technology. We are rapidly combining many world-leading technologies and teams into the Fusion family.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic team located in India. We are seeking a passionate Principal Engineer to join the Fusion Data team within our Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions division. In this role, you will be part of a scrum team and help us fulfill our mission to deliver the best software for our users' CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB needs in a single, integrated cloud software platform. You will use your software programming skills to implement the next generation of features and functionalities in our product and work with a world-class software engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Use a product-focused mindset to lead the design, development, and implementation of solutions to complex problems.

• Define and oversee high-level architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Review code written by others, provide feedback, and ensure the adoption of best practices to maintain high coding standards.

• Work closely with stakeholders, including Product Managers, Experience Designers, and Quality Assurance, and have experience working with distributed teams.

• Help the team address technical challenges, remove obstacles, make decisions on critical issues, predict risk, and devise mitigation strategies.

• Design and implement scalable, maintainable, robust, and performant software solutions.

• Promote a culture of trust, respect, and inclusion within your team.

• Willingness to learn and expand technical breadth and depth, developing T-shaped skills.

• Be flexible, proactive, and respond quickly to multiple priorities under changing conditions and in an Agile process environment.

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, or a related field.

• 8+ years of software development experience with C++.

• Familiarity and/or experience with computer-aided design (CAD) tools and software.

• Experience with source code control systems such as GIT, GitHub.

• Knowledge of Agile software development practices such as SCRUM.

• Experience with Standard C++ libraries and commonly used containers and algorithms.

• Working experience with modern IDEs such as XCODE, Visual Studio, CLION, or similar.

• Modern C++ (14, 17, 20 +) specification, architecture frameworks, techniques, and patterns.

• Java-Springboot: Knowledge of developing robust backend (RESTful APIs) systems using Java and Spring Boot or using a scripting language framework.

• Cloud Technologies: Knowledge of deploying and managing applications on cloud platforms, ensuring scalability and reliability.

• AI Understanding: Basic understanding of AI concepts and the ability to leverage these in developing smarter solutions. And awareness of tool cursor and co-pilot

• Practical experience programming in C++, having worked on several projects of some complexity with related and demonstrable skills, and with some real responsibility delivering working software.

• Knowledge of backend programming methodologies, tools, and techniques.

• Solid understanding of common design patterns, algorithms, build systems, and modern source control systems.

• Willing to take on challenges and stretch outside their comfort zone to grow.